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Old 01-26-2019, 11:21 AM
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I would be furious with that hack job install on my truck. Are they kidding? Unsafe to the point you need get that taken care of immediately. Obviously you need to throughly check out the rest of their work. Would be the last time I had that shop touch my truck as they don't give a flying F about customer safety!
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Yeah I didn't have that warm and fuzzy once I seen that. The truck is going back into the shop today.
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Yeah I didn't have that warm and fuzzy once I seen that. The truck is going back into the shop today.
IMO you did real good checking it out AFTER you got it back. Many people wouldn't have bothered and could have been courting disaster in the future. Real glad you found it, then asked the right questions and now having it taken care of ASAP.

It's a good object lesson to anyone having work done on their truck particularly on the suspension to throughly CHECK OUT the shops work..........
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😱😱😱 stock block should be taken off!!!
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Im no lift expert but that u bolt situation is definitely not ok and really sketchy they could even let a truck leave like that.
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So how much lift did they install? A 6 inch lift kit normally gets 4 inches in the rear. Pretty sure they were supposed to take out your stock block.
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Originally Posted by tuflehundon
So how much lift did they install? A 6 inch lift kit normally gets 4 inches in the rear. Pretty sure they were supposed to take out your stock block.
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I had them install 5100's on all four corners with a McGauphys 6.5" lift and cranking the front up an additional 1.75". So I wanted @6" of rear lift to compensate for the increased 8ish of lift up front.
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Well, there's our answer folks.

Find a new set of longer u-bolts would be the best suggestion.
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Originally Posted by bobekongwe
Well, there's our answer folks.

Find a new set of longer u-bolts would be the best suggestion.
Yeah more likely they'll remove the factory block and install some lift shackles making those lift kit u-bolts fit correctly
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Originally Posted by techrep
Those are not the correct u-bolts for taller blocks.. take it back and make them fix it.. that is un-safe.. should be a couple inches of threads below those bolts. Like mentioned above.. need to look at the entire install for proper installation and security.
2 threads...not inches of threads. At any rate those are too short.
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